Settlement reached

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 | 9:53 a.m.

United Parcel Service Inc. will pay $10 million and ensure deaf employees and applicants full access to workplace safety information and promotion opportunities under a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit.

The Monday agreement -- which includes $4.1 million for plaintiffs' attorneys -- ends a trial of a class-action lawsuit claiming UPS, the nation's fourth-largest private employer, discriminated against more than 900 current and former hearing-impaired employees.

"I'm hopeful that deaf employees will not be held back anymore," Babaranti Oloyede, one of the plaintiffs, said through an interpreter.

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